YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

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In news that will surprise no one, it turns out that police are only too happy to use automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras—the kind made infamous by Flock—to track ordinary citizens, but are considerably less enthusiastic about citizens using the same technology to track them. This point was demonstrated recently by Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli, of Brampton, Ontario, a city that recently spent 2 million Canadian dollars on “high-resolution cameras, along with automated licence plate recognition technology.

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